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Mar Pro Dual Graphics Cards
by William Campbell on Aug 12, 2008 at 3:58:22 pm

Just added an MXO to a 2 x 2.8 quad with GF8800 as primary graphics card. With my #2 23 ACD now a monitor I added an AT2600 card for a third monitor for bins and clips. Was having trouble with the MXO before adding a new card but problem now seems worse. Dropped frames and freezing up on playback. Is there an issue with the MacPro and FCP+MXO with two graphics cards? Two graphics cards from difference manufactures?

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Re: Mar Pro Dual Graphics Cards
by walter biscardi on Aug 12, 2008 at 4:38:32 pm

Not sure on the MXO but I do know that Color will not operate with two graphics cards.

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Re: Mac Pro Dual Graphics Cards
by William Campbell on Aug 12, 2008 at 5:20:39 pm

This is for an offline project so won't be doing any color correction on this setup.I was hoping to be able to use a third monitor for logging 50 hours of clips while being able to check them with HD playback. I can live with all the FCP stuff on one scene but I sure would like the dual sceen plus MXO if possible. For now I've pulled the MXO, and all is working well.

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Re: Mac Pro Dual Graphics Cards
by John Fishback on Aug 13, 2008 at 1:28:12 am

Check out http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/dh2go/

and

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

John

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Re: Mac Pro Dual Graphics Cards
by William Campbell on Aug 13, 2008 at 3:17:15 pm

Whole system seems to be working better w/o the second graphics card, I'll stick with two monitors for this project but consider the Matrox adaptors if I need three.

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